Not really. National healthcare systems are maybe the one reason why I said "almost never" and not "never". When your problem is literally and directly, not ind

Not really. National healthcare systems are maybe the one reason why I said "almost never" and not "never". When your problem is literally and directly, not indirectly, about assigning finite resources where lives are on the line, that's the cases where a model that relates the two is most likely to be useful. And even then most healthcare systems don't even try. When the effects of sacrificing lives are more disconnected, the model becomes less useful. In particular, I don't think these sorts of models are useful for making decisions about how to respond to COVID, which is what this article is about.